Completely Satisified

Matthew 5:6 (KJV) Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

      One day Jesus told His disciples “I must go to Samaria”. This is an interesting statement in John 4:4 because on that day Jesus was departing Judea and going to Galilee. Samaria was not on the way. Jesus was going out of His way to enter an area where the people were hostile to the Jews and meet a woman who was looked down upon by her community. When Jesus got there He didn’t go into town but waited by a well at a time when everyone would have been done with the chore of drawing water. The chances of meeting someone there were very slim. Yet, Jesus waited by the well.

     I love reading this story because it reminds me of how much Jesus loves us. It is perfect picture of today’s Scripture. Here came a woman who was an outcast of society, looked down upon by her neighbors, seeking to fill her thirst. She was about to receive more than she had ever hoped or dreamed. Jesus had gone out of the way to meet her! It is comforting to know that God sees, God knows, God loves, and God is not too busy.
She had come to fetch water when this man asked her to give Him a drink. Wasn’t He aware of the social barriers? Jesus brushed past the protests and gently put his hand on her thirst. “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would give you living water.”
     How did this man know? How did He know the hunger in her soul, the thirst that had haunted her since she was a little girl? She had tried to fill it with the affections of men and the pleasures of this world but everyday she would awaken to the same longing, the same pain. And now this man was telling her that He had the answer? What could He possibly have that would satisfy her soul? He didn’t even have something to draw from the well.
Then Jesus spoke to her need, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
     “Sir, give me this water!” She could feel that thirst rising up within her, the same one that she had tried to fill with so many things. What? How did He know about my husbands, my boyfriend? Who is this man?

     Jesus knows you! There is nothing hidden that He cannot find. He sees the longing of your heart and knows the mistakes you have made. He waits for you to bring that longing in your heart to Him, to bare your heart and empty your soul to Him. When we confess our sin, our wrongs, our mistakes, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. This is part of “hungering and thirsting after righteousness”. We must hide nothing from God. Too often we approach God with the superficial details of our life and mistakenly believe that we can hide the parts that are too raw, the parts that we have hidden from everyone. Jesus knows! But He waits. He waits by the well that we have been drawing from for all those years, always drinking but never satisfied.
He waits to fill us with living water! The living water that will spring up within us to eternal life. The water that completely satisfies the longing of your soul.